Lok Sabha Elections: ‘Mahatma Gandhi said soon after Independence…’ Rajnath Singh reiterates ‘abolish Congress’ remark

A assertion that the BJP periodically repeats is that Mahatma Gandhi sought the abolishment of Congress, which sparked debates successful 2017, 2019, and 2023. 

On Wednesday, Rajnath Singh said, "Mahatma Gandhi said that soon aft Independence, the Congress should beryllium abolished. But the Congress did not perceive to Mahatma Gandhi, and present the radical are helping abolish Congress." 

In the Lok Sabha elections, the radical volition fulfil 2 of Mahatma Gandhi's wishes, including 1 that India should go a beardown federation of the world, Rajnath Singh said.

At a roadshow held up of BJP campaigner from North East Delhi, Manoj Tiwari's information filing for Lok Sabha Elections 2024, Rajnath Singh said, "I judge that BJP volition registry a large triumph connected each seats of Delhi. The 2 phases of elections person made it wide that our slogan of ‘400 paar' is becoming a reality'.

Over the years, arsenic portion of their governmental rhetoric against the Congress, non-Congress politicians, including Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Venkaiah Naidu and Jayalalithaa, person recalled that Gandhi believed the Congress should person been dissolved oregon disbanded aft Independence.

In 2019,Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said, “Mahatma Gandhi had agelong agone realised that Congress has the maximum receiving capableness for each ailments. Hence past lone helium had called for disintegrating the Congress. ‘Congress Mukt Bharat’ is not my slogan, but I americium conscionable fulfilling the privation of Mahatma Gandhi."

Mahatma Gandhi successful his 1909 publication ‘Hind Swaraj’ had written, “The Congress brought unneurotic Indians from antithetic parts of India, and enthused america with the thought of nationality… All I person to amusement is that the Congress gave america a foretaste of Home Rule. To deprive it of the honour is not proper, and for america to bash truthful would not lone beryllium ungrateful, but retard the fulfillment of our object. To dainty the Congress arsenic an instauration inimical to our maturation arsenic a federation would disable america from utilizing that body."

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Published: 01 May 2024, 04:46 PM IST